Focus Quote by Miranda Devine

Far too many athletes have been unable to let go of their troubled roots or just have failed to fully understand their new lives…

— Jemele Hill

Who is to blame for this most recent of sports disgraces in America? The culture that flings young athletes like Tyson up out of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

— Robert A. Heinlein

I think it's up to the rest of us to try to create that environment where those closeted athletes out there know that when…

— Jason Collins

There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.

— Francesco Totti

You're starting to see more and more athletes recognizing their reach and how much leverage and power that they have in their celebrity and…

— Malcolm Jenkins

That's the neat thing about the Olympics - so many of these athletes, they don't make a ton of money, they train for four…

— Julie Foudy

For many young people growing up in minority communities, there is a sense that their lives are disposable. As athletes, we have a platform…

— Jason Collins

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

— Charlie Sheen

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

— John Murray

Professional athletes, most of us came from the streets. We feel like we know the streets and can pretty much protect ourselves. But now…

— Ben Wallace

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.

— Jason Whitlock